''Dyraspis'' is no longer accepted as a genus. It has become a synonym of the
subgenus
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of
sea snails,
marine gastropod mollusk
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s ''Conus (Virroconus)''
Iredale, 1930 represented as ''Conus''
Linnaeus, 1758 in the
family
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Conidae
Conidae, with the current common name of " cone snails", is a taxonomic family (previously subfamily) of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea.
The 2014 classification of the superfamily Conoidea, group ...
, the
cone snails
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and their allies.
Species list
This list of species is based on the information in the
World Register of Marine Species
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(
WoRMS Worms may refer to:
*Worm, an invertebrate animal with a tube-like body and no limbs
Places
*Worms, Germany, a city
** Worms (electoral district)
* Worms, Nebraska, U.S.
*Worms im Veltlintal, the German name for Bormio, Italy
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) list. Species within the genus ''Dyraspis'' include:
* ''Dyraspis dorreensis'' ''(Péron, 1807)'' is a synonym of ''
Conus dorreensis''
Péron, 1807
References
Further reading
* Kohn A. A. (1992). "Chronological Taxonomy of ''Conus'', 1758-1840". Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.
* Monteiro A. (ed.) (2007)
The Cone Collector 1 1-28.
* Berschauer D. (2010). ''Technology and the Fall of the Mono-Generic Family'
The Cone Collector 15 pp. 51-54
* Puillandre N., Meyer C.P., Bouchet P., and Olivera B.M. (2011), ''Genetic divergence and geographical variation in the deep-water Conus orbignyi complex (Mollusca: Conoidea)'', Zoologica Scripta 40(4) 350-363.
External links
To World Register of Marine Species Gastropods.com: ''Conidae'' setting forth the genera recognized therein.
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Conidae